Jeremie Frimpong’s spell at Liverpool may be heading towards an early end, with the Dutch defender now reportedly open to leaving Anfield just a year and a half after he arrived on Merseyside carrying big expectations.
Liverpool brought him in from Bayer Leverkusen in the summer of 2025 in a deal worth around €40 million, handing him a long contract and trusting him to fill the gap on the right side of defence that their academy graduate created when he departed for Real Madrid, a role his pace and attacking instincts seemed made for.
Things have not gone to plan since, as his first season brought 35 appearances across all competitions, only 21 of them in the Premier League, and just two goals, the first on his debut in the Community Shield against Crystal Palace and the second in the FA Cup, which left him without a single league goal to show for the campaign.
Injuries have also followed him throughout his time in England, and the latest came at Brentford on 17 October, when he came on at half time in a match Liverpool won by two goals to one but lasted only a few minutes before a fresh hamstring problem forced him off, with Andoni Iraola admitting afterwards that the club would lose him and Dominik Szoboszlai for some time, and he has not featured since.
That setback followed a difficult summer on the international stage too, as former Netherlands boss Ronald Koeman left him out of the World Cup squad for performance reasons, which kept him on 15 caps and a single goal for his country.
Against that backdrop, Winwin reports through its own sources that the defender, who is 25, would welcome a new experience in the Saudi Pro League, and the outlet adds that Al Hilal, one of the biggest clubs in Saudi Arabia, has already received an offer to sign him, which could open the door to one of the more surprising transfers of the coming window.
Such a move would mark a sharp turn for a player who stood out in Leverkusen’s historic 2023/24 campaign, when they won the Bundesliga without losing a match, added the German Cup and then lifted the German Super Cup in 2024, with Frimpong scoring 23 goals in 133 league appearances across his time at the BayArena.
For Liverpool, the decision comes down to whether they recover a large part of their investment now or give him time to rebuild his fitness and rediscover the form that made him one of Europe’s most exciting full backs, and with nothing confirmed by either club so far, the next few weeks should show whether this interest grows into a genuine offer or fades once he is back on the pitch.
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